Not long ago, I met Commissioner Catherine Purcell of the California Board of Parole. She was the first member I ever met, and I was intimidated. To many inside, parole board members are killers of ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The announcement triggers a prison-wide movement across Miami’s Everglades Correctional Institution. In the ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On any given day, there are nearly 60,000 incarcerated teens in U.S. prisons and juvenile detention centers. The ...

A man walked slowly toward the group of guards outside the dorm building. He was wearing a red paper jumpsuit, the standard uniform for transfers. Inside the dorm, a bunch of us were gathered on our ...

Photo illustrations by Sarah Rogers. Photos courtesy of the Authors For the third year, the Society of Professional Journalists and Prison Journalism Project have hosted the Stillwater Awards, an ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For 13 years, I lived in concrete giants: Sterling Correctional Facility and Limon Correctional Facility — ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When I was sentenced to prison, I lost certain rights. I lost the right to go where I wanted, when I wanted. I ...

Last year, New York’s corrections department ordered artists and writers in custody to provide their work for review before circulating it publicly. New York Focus reporter Chris Gelardi wrote that ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Chris Jacobs was 16 when he robbed a store. The man with him shot someone to death there, later took a plea ...

At United States Penitentiary, Tucson, where I’m incarcerated, we have been having trouble receiving our mail for years. There have been thousands of complaints by the prisoners here at this Arizona ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The most focused classroom I’ve ever been in didn’t have desks, a whiteboard or even quiet. It was a prison dorm ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Pleasant dreams leave me feeling gloomy. I’m fortunate to dream wonderful dreams on my prison bunk. My dreams ...